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The three men accused of killing popular Hardee's employee Dianne E. Freeman-Green in an early morning robbery at the restaurant in 2007 are expected to be prosecuted in federal court rather than in the state system, the former attorney for one of the men said Tuesday. A federal prosecution, conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office rather than state prosecutors, would bring to bear the federal government's massive financial resources to the case. It would also mean that all three suspects in the case — not just the man accused of firing the handgun that killed Freeman-Green — could receive the death penalty if convicted. That's unlike Virginia's...

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The three men accused of killing popular Hardee's employee Dianne E. Freeman-Green in an early morning robbery at the restaurant in 2007 are expected to be prosecuted in federal court rather than in the state system, the former attorney for one of the men...

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Spain's King Juan Carlos said on Monday he would abdicate in favor of his son Prince Felipe, aiming to revive the scandal-hit monarchy at a time of economic hardship and growing discontent with the wider political elite.
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More than 780,000 votes were cast by Sunday, the final day of an unofficial referendum on democratic reforms in Hong Kong, part of a civil campaign that has been branded illegal by local and mainland Chinese authorities.
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Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura. The onetime Communist Party member was 98...

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Tiger Woods declined investigators' requests for information about his early-morning crash for the third straight day Sunday but put a statement on his Web site that said the accident "is a private matter and I want to keep it that way."
On the...

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Facing widespread dismay over the assassination of a leading gubernatorial candidate, President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday urged fellow Mexicans to join hands against the forces of organized crime that he said were to blame.
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